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Bold Prediction: Wide receivers

The meek may inherit the Earth, but they aren't likely to win your fantasy league. When it comes to claiming virtual hardware on the fantasy football field, you have to go big, or expect to go home. With that in mind, I asked my fellow Yahoo! fantasy experts (Andy Behrens, Brad Evans, Scott Pianowski, Dalton Del Don and myself) to peek into their crystal balls and offer up their most eye brow-raising visions pertaining to the running back position for the coming season - check out our Bold Predictions for Quarterbacks and Running Backs:

Golden Tate is a top 20 receiver, as the seas part open for him. Percy Harvin is already hurt, and Sidney Rice always seems to be. (Pianowski)

Pierre Garcon keeps the injury imp at arm's length, suits up all 16 games and establishes new career benchmarks across the board - 85 receptions for 1,250 yards and does an end-zone jig 10 times. (Evans)

The year's best ACL comeback story may not be RG3, but Ryan Broyles. He'll give us 70 catches. (Behrens)

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Wallace's fantasy value could be headed south. (USAT)

Mike Wallace impersonates the Miami Marlins and delivers underwhelming results in his debut with the Dolphins. Terribly inconsistent and largely unreliable, he fails to surpass 850 receiving yards and finishes outside the WR top 25. (Evans)

Based upon ADP, Mike Wallace goes down as the biggest bust among fantasy wide receivers in 2013. (Del Don)

By the end of the season, we'll all agree that Cecil Shorts was the subject of so many "underrated" features that he became overrated. (Behrens)

We won't see Percy Harvin back in action until the summer of 2014. (Sorry, Brandon.) (Behrens)

Kenbrell Thompkins is on most waiver wires at some point in October. Undrafted free agent, offense that spreads it around. The buzz is out of control. (Pianowski)

Anquan Boldin posts his worst per game fantasy numbers of his career. (Funston)

DeSean Jackson scores four times or less, and misses several games. He's still afraid to go over the middle. (Pianowski)

Andre Johnson again posts high-quality numbers in PPR settings, but proves to be frustrating to own in standard leagues. He fails to score six times, extending his sub-10 TD streak to 11 seasons. (Evans)

In his first season with the Broncos, Wes Welker's production falls off Pike's Peak. His final 70-750-3 tally makes him barely roster-worthy in 12-team and deeper leagues. (Evans)

Kenny Britt has two games with multiple scores, and otherwise doesn't find the end zone at all. Good luck with Jake Locker, Tennessee. (Pianowski)

Greg Jennings will make you long for the Bernard Berrian era, Minnesota. (Behrens)

Reggie Wayne doesn't score many more fantasy points than either of his teammates, T.Y. Hilton or Darrius Heyward-Bey. (Del Don)

Larry Fitzgerald, who finished outside the top 40 fantasy wide receivers a year ago, remains outside WR1 status even with Carson Palmer in the fold, failing to crack the top 15 fantasy wideouts in '13. (Funston)